Dresdner Schnellpressenfabrik

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Koenig & Bauer AG Radebeul plant, seen from Jacobstein , 2008

The formerly independent Dresdner Schnellpressenfabrik is a subsidiary of the printing machine manufacturer Koenig & Bauer , from 2001 to 2015 as its Radebeul plant , before that as an independent Planeta plant , since July 1, 2015 under the name KBA-Sheetfed Solutions AG & Co. KG , since 2017 Koenig & Bauer Sheetfed AG & Co. KG . The factory with around 1,500 employees (2009) is the part of the Koenig & Bauer company responsible for sheetfed offset printing machines , plus digital sheetfed machines for packaging printing and systems for postpress. The Radebeul location is responsible for 60% of the worldwide turnover of around 1.2 billion euros.

The plant is located in the Naundorf district of the Saxon city of Radebeul , at Friedrich-List-Strasse 47.

history

Historical classification
Planeta Druckmaschinenfabrik AG share , issued in 1942
Two-color offset sheet-fed printing machine Planeta-Variant on a postage stamp of the GDR from 1969 for the Leipzig spring fair

The Dresdner Schnellpressenfabrik was founded in 1898 by Joseph Hauss, travel engineer at Schnellpressenfabrik Albert & Cie. in Frankenthal (Pfalz) , and Alfred Sparbert (both knew each other from the Rockstroh works in Heidenau ) and Dr. Michaelis in Brockwitz . In 1900 the book printing machine factory relocated to neighboring Coswig on today's Industriestrasse. In 1910 the company was converted into a public limited company.

In the neighboring industrial area of ​​Naundorf (today in the Naundorf district of Radebeul ), another part of the company was created by taking over the area of ​​the bankrupt stamping and enamelling plant Victoria . After the First World War, the Coswig factory was closed, the Naundorfer part continued to exist and specialized in the manufacture of offset printing machines from 1922 . In 1922 the high-speed press with table inking unit was brought onto the market.

1924 merged the company with the Leipziger Schnellpressenfabrik for AG Dresden-Leipzig Schnellpressenfabrik . “ High-speed one -color and two-color offset presses, straight and reverse offset presses, letterpress high-speed presses, two- speed high-speed presses and auto-platen printing presses ” were produced.

In 1932 the world's first four-color sheetfed offset press was introduced. Inspired by its own invention (first patent in 1902) of the " planetary drive " for high-speed letterpress presses , the company changed its company to Planeta Druckmaschinen on October 28, 1938 .

After dismantling in 1945 and forced administration by SMAD , the state-owned company (VEB) Polygraph Druckmaschinenwerk Planeta was established in 1948 , which took over the machine tool factory in 1954 and the VEB Cocima in 1967 or 1968 . With the August Koebig machine factory in Radebeul, founded in 1890, there was another printing machine manufacturer in Radebeul, which after the Second World War became the most important supplier of the printing and paper processing industry in the GDR under the name VEB Ramasch . It was also taken over in 1967 or 1968. The Polygraph printing machine works Victoria in Heidenau was also taken over.

From 1970 until the fall of the Berlin Wall , Planeta was the largest printing machine manufacturer in the GDR (1989: 5,600 employees) and belonged to the Polygraph Werner Lamberz combine . The Planeta four-color offset press caused a sensation at the Leipzig autumn fair, a further development of the 1960s was the globally innovative unit design for offset systems in 1965, and in 1986 the longest sheet-fed offset press in the world with ten printing units was presented. In 1990 the company took over the Royal Zenith Corp. in the US and it changed its name to Planeta North America Inc. to.

In April 1991 Koenig & Bauer took over the majority stake in the company that had been separated from the combine, the last quarter of the shares followed in 1994, and in 1998 KBA Planeta-Bogenoffset was integrated into the Koenig & Bauer Group. All six Saxon locations outside Radebeul were closed and the West German sheetfed offset printing press production was also concentrated on Radebeul. With a turnover of 520 million euros, the plant was the largest mechanical engineering company in the accession area in 2001.

The Koenig & Bauer AG Radebeul today reported per year in about 60 to 100 patents.

Company building

The buildings erected during the GDR era were built from 1960 to 1974 according to the drafts of a collective under the urban planning direction of Johannes Vogel with the assistance of the building construction department. The construction building is 9-storey and was built using a skeleton construction. The production hall with a usable area of ​​40,000 square meters was built with 7 aisles and a rod network, copilit glazing, wall panel facade and steel ribbon windows. The social wing with kitchen and dining room was built in steel. A natural stone mosaic wall in the school yard was designed by Erich Hering and Franz Tippel .

Awards

During the GDR era, a collective from the VEB Polygraph Druckmaschinenwerke Planeta Radebeul was the recipient of the GDR National Prize, 1st class for science and technology . It received the award in 1979 "for its share in the design and manufacturing solutions in the creation of the new 'Variant' sheet-fed offset printing press series".

Frank Junker, at the time in the position of board member for production technology at Koenig & Bauer and responsible for the Radebeul location, was awarded the art prize of the large district town of Radebeul in 2005 as a promoter of art and culture .

In 2008, the Radebeul plant was awarded to Koenig & Bauer for the renovation of the "building fabric that has been handed down from over a hundred years of factory tradition" including a high-rise office building in prefabricated construction and its functionally appropriate "addition with architecturally sophisticated new buildings" with the Radebeul builders' award in the category of existing buildings excellent.

Patents (extract)

  • September 18, 1902; AT000000012540B; Device for moving the pressure foundation of high-speed presses
  • January 14, 1911; AT000000053467B; Curved version for high-speed presses with intermittently rotated printing cylinder
  • May 16, 1920; DE000000352243A; Device on high-speed presses to automatically prevent the printing process in the event of inaccurate installation or if the sheet to be printed is missing
  • before April 27, 1922; DE000000352441A; High-speed press with swinging impression cylinder and front sheet exit
  • August 24, 1922; DE000000357430A; High-speed press with table inking unit

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Ufer: Digital Prevention. In: Wirtschaft in Sachsen, October 2018, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Koenig & Bauer website, history 1814–1900
  3. ↑ Graphic representation of a factory view around 1935 "Dresden-Leipziger Schnellpressenfabrik AG"
  4. ↑ a b c d e Frank Andert (Red.): Stadtlexikon Radebeul . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 106 .
  5. ↑ a b Koenig & Bauer website, history 1951–2000
  6. ↑ May et al., No. 143 (Druckmaschinenwerk Planeta, Friedrich-List-Str.)
  7. ↑ Radebeuler Bauherrenpreis 2008. Category: Building in existing buildings. In: Radebeuler builder award. Association for Monument Preservation and New Buildings, Radebeul, accessed on April 27, 2012 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 34 "  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 38.5"  E